Wednesday, April 9, 2008

First Impressions

Kanokon
Kawasumi Ayako's fox girl raping Noto Mamiko's shota. I might watch it just for this although everything else more or less sucked.

Soul Eater
Great animation and i love the character designs. Feels like it's shaping up to be an action comedy, which is good. Yet to make me lol like FMP though. Kind of long at 50+ eps. Maka the protagonist sounds... i dunno, wooden? Voiced by some newcomer, i think. Haven't seen her around. Katou Emiri is unrecognisable as the catgirl.

Kamen no Meido Guy, AKA HnG Clone #1
HnG with 100x the fanservice minus random anime references. OP song by Kotoko (who sang for HnG). Even has a Maria clone in Fubuki, only way more violent. Katou Emiri is unrecognisable as some random schoolgirl. Maybe she's simply unrecognisable.

Zettai Karen Children, AKA HnG Clone #2
Almost everything about this reminds me of HnG. Here's a list: opening scene telling me to watch Tv in a bright room, same font for the OP lyrics, random anime references in akiba scene, same animation style as HnG, the loli who sounds like Hayate, the hamster who sounds like Nagi. A quick check at ANN shows that the studio behind this is, guess what, Synergy SP - the same one responsible for HnG.

xxxHolic 2nd Season
A direct continuation of the first season. Katou Emiri might pop up soon. She had unrecognisable cameos all over the first season. Yuko-san is still so sekushi.

ToLoveRu
Realised the title might be a pun on "trouble" (とらぶる). First ep peaked in the OP and it's downhill from there. Fanservice might save this show for me though. I did watch the whole of Rosario+Vampire after all.

Amatsuki
Gives me Bleach-ish vibes. Expecting shounen action. ANN lists 13 eps, so hopefully they won't be spending 50 eps breaking my favourite character out of jail while said favourite character sits around doing absolutely nothing. Paku Romi's (FMA's Edward) swordswoman is interesting, ominous name though (Kuchiha). Kitamura Eri (Tatiana) does some wacko voice as a one foot tall monster.

Itazura na Kiss
Not too bad, enjoyed it more than i expected to. Keep getting it mixed up with SA in my head. Main guy is voiced by the guy who played School Days' legendary 人渣.

SA
Not too bad, enjoyed it as much as i expected to. Keep getting it mixed up with Itazura na Kiss in my head.

Kurenai
Some nice action scenes at the beginning, but feels like it can morph into Binbou Shimai Monogatari anytime.

Allison & Lilia
Has Last Exile's weird 2 country geography and lot's of flying so kagamisumi was right about the Last Exile-ishness. Looks like it's going to be a wholesome family-friendly adventure story though. Shucks.

Nabari no Ou
Has some fluid and well choreograped fight scenes. Kugimi plays the very KL male lead. It's been some time since i last heard her use some voice other than the tsundere loli one. Ok, actually she played the poker faced girl in Rosario + Vampire but i was too distracted by other things g(b)oing on.

Wagaya no Oinarisama
Switch the fox with a wolf, take out lots of action, add in lots of dialogue, and you get Spicy Wolf. Yukana turns in the most un-Tessa like performance as the fox's female form.

I'm still sitting on a bunch of other shows. There's just so much inertia when starting on a new series. Nothing has made me lol yet, although Kanokon came close. Still, that doesn't really count, i only laughed because i was imagining mamimami getting raped by Ayako. =)

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